Show TOTAL ABSENCE OF CELEBRATION Ml IIER CAUSES SES COMMENT Newspaper Men ThinK Thin City Quiet When VI Western estern Pacific Opens Possibly tho the representative of the San Sati an Cili all with the the newspaper per por special over rr I the he Western Pa Pacific dill did not lIot know ri anything about a little jUle pt passage a e at at arm amis between one ono I IJ E. I T. T f fry president of tho the Western Pacific Pa Pa- edit edit- and th the hie Sail Salt Lake Estate association al il thin Ihn time t the he latter Jatter body hOdY was vis preparing Jo In celebrate i thin the open tag ing of traffic on tho Iho Western Pacific I It t. t will ho Je 0 remembered d locally however however how how- ever e that at that time timo tho the overtures of tho local business men were distinct i ly and decisively turned down hi h by the pr president of ot tho the road road nl at least that is the interpretation the business men of tho thic city put on Mr kIT rys ry's letter Tho latter seemed to fo have h a fairly d distinct recollection of some somo t things bings that had been saul said or Pr hinted at h by the Commercial club traffic bureau about tho the relations of his road to the tho legislators of Utah at tho the time tho the state government so went on a trip to Wend er over After Mr T letter was n received re roo the proposed cl celebration of tho the of the tho Western Pacific was dropped like tho the proverbial ro hot potato po Into tato So that when the tho special arrived td in Salt Lake City last Friday it found no public reception on awaiting it other than the welcome of tho members of tho the Salt Lake LJ Press club and md the na news newspaper newspaper s' s paper fraternity to their brothers from tito tho Sierras What Vb the Can Call man alan had to sa say about it i is fairly interesting rending in in in the tIle light of the cordial and enthusiastic reported from the tho various various cities along alons tho route of the Western Pacific on the specials special's return trip Tho Thio c Chi n man says As As Others See Seo Us SALT LAKE CITY Aug Aus 19 The The intermountain metropolis ma may inay be interested inter inter- ested osted in tho Western Pacific's formal opening but it is not excited For ono thing Salt Snit Lake is having ha a congress of western governors and for another it has hag had bal the new v road served up to it with its itA coffee and its tea for many years Now it wants antI to ride on the new cars and to have them produce tho the promised additions to its pros Thus Thus it befell that tho the newspaper newspapermen men were the ministers minister of hospitality to the Western Pacific party greeting them as ns the fhe special pulled into the imposing now combination depot of tho Denver Den Hio io Grande and Western Pacific and entertaining them most agreeably All AJI tho the ret rest t of or this hustling hust bust lint ling city was otherwise busy Possibly I tomorrow the people of or Salt Lake generally mav exhibit some somo such lively concern in the tho Western Pacific Pacific Pa Pa- c r as is is shown by the city's newspapers and newspaper men It certainly would woud if any part of the function had been beon arranged to take place here The Tho road signifies much mitch to a community whoso whose progress de de- ponds wholly o on rail transportation It puts tho the seat scat of or that empire which winch the tho astute Mormon l leaders envisioned cn ned on the tho main line and makes it actually and directly a transcontinental crossroad Growth Predestined Ie By and b by the Salt Lakers will see ace ee many and uld greater skyscrapers lifting above the few for built now v o no and antI will rihl rightly credit them them- to the railroads prominently among them the tho Western Pacific Pt million dollars has hns gone one already to back hack tho the judgment which drove the new new tran transcontinental trail this way The raisin raising of dividends dividends divi divi- and interest on that great sum aunt as yet hard hardly begun must brin bring to and through Salt Lak Lake a n large lare and constant stream of business from rein which it will lawfully take its ts toll |